This area called Townsville is looking like it may be evacuation material on Tuesday as a precationary step. Tonight I checked the harbour and general traffic in the town is basically empty. There are still probably a considerable number of hardcore veteran residents who reside in this Town who are incredibly difficult to communicate with regarding this subject. My information is telling me that a Category 4 cyclone/hurricane, whatever you want to call it is brewing up and sitting around 24 to 48 hours off this coastal area. The last one did not connect here and was like the size of a pea compared to this considerably large footprint of nature that is destined here. A diameter of wind 500km is harder to narrow down. My concern, is that simply, this area is too close to the sea for comfort. Understandably, sitting it out may be the only option for some, but if the means to relocate to an area further afield are available, I would highly endorse it.

In a house around 7km from the coast, this is not making sense to reside here until the threat has passed clearly. It will have to be a long drive tommorow likely to a more inland area, anywhere rather than taking the brunt so close.

I must rest now.

Usually, I don't like linking youtube clips, however the report above shows the situation pretty much all over Australia just now, or recently. The reason this clip was worth showing, is because when I arrived here, I was going to work in Rockhampton, probably just as well that I didn't bother. It is a great shame for these people.

Tonight, there is an equally worrying situation where I am located, however it is not flooding, but the possibility of cyclones. These original cyclones drifted past this area in March and seem to want to come back for a second run. There is 3 sitting out at sea. One is probably not that bad, but the other ones are. At the moment this area is on cyclone watch.

So interestingly, as I did a bit of research into this a while ago, the US seems to be into making privatised money now. It seems to me they have little option but to do this really. It is not the first time this has happened. $ ;)

Well, another day passes. Nothing new. The only thing of consideration, is that the weather, although technically improving, is the ideal kind of condition to make a cyclone now. It was mentioned in a online news report today.

Another week passes. Nothing really to take note of, other than the fact that the Australian economy has been affected by the weather and lots of pandemonium on the mainstream news as always. Luckily, it looks like the banks are writing off the loans on houses that were weather damadged, so therefore that is probably a good thing for the small investors. The labour market seems to be strong enough here, however, white collar jobs are being cut, according to the reports i've seen. Anyways the dam is holding at 38M tonight and slowly dropping, so this year, this town probably won't get flooded, which from a buyers agent point of view probably isn't that great, as the property can't be written off and with the downturn of office work, i'm glad that is not my chosen career path at the moment. Oh well, time for bed again.

It has been fairly obvious to all that the weather is making normal life impossible. In this area Townsville, tonight the water level at the main dam was about 38M high. From the information I can see that the max height is around 42. This dam was upgraded in 2007 from a max height of 27M. If that work had not been completed, I doubt much of this town would be around to today. My estimation, given the sporadic weather is that probably within 2 years that height could be breached by water. A warning was issued here 20 days ago when it hit 40M. The level has not really dropped that much.